The nursery and Primary 1 classes enjoyed a great sports day together . Races included running with a teddy, balancing a bean bag and pushing a wheelbarrow. Teams were helped and encouraged by Primary 7 helpers.
The whole of Gordon Primary walked from school to Battlehill and around the hill for the third year running on Friday 6th May.
Primary 7SC led the way. The school stopped for a rest and snack at the shelter in the woods, before continuing on their walk. While there they had a chance to look at some of the young trees they had planted two years previously which are now growing healthily into young saplings and were just coming into leaf.
Staff and pupils agreed that it was good to do a whole school activity together.
At the two week Easter holidays there was unfortunate water damage that has caused the nursery children to be in the small hall for a temperately small amount of time. Some children enjoyed working in the hall while some on the other hand did not.
From the help of six p7 prefects at the school it was not so difficult and everything was flowing very easily.
Luckily the Nursery are back in there class room , but may be back in the hall due to some plumbing will maybe still be needed.
Recently the nursery have been to Deans Shortbread Factory in Huntly and have been learning about how shortbread is made in the factory.
They walked all the way to deans and back and had to wear orange vests for safety. They got their photo taken with Shorty the piper of Deans ( Deans mascot). They really enjoyed their trip and learnt a lot about how shortbread is made.
Anneliese, in primary six, did a sponsored swim for the caring bears charity. This took place at the Huntly swimming pool where she swam thirty lengths in only twenty minutes. Anneliese raised £400 that will go towards helping a family in Africa. She has done a very good job and this will make a big difference to a family’s life.
Liam in primary six marched in the Remembrance parade in Huntly with the Huntly And District Pipe Band. Liam is in the band and plays the snare drum. He performs in lots of games in the summer.
Finally Scoutt also in P6 went to Dunoon to a world championship for highland dancing. She got seven medals and her best was a 5th.
We may update you on more achievements throughout the year.
Parents and pupils enjoyed watching Primary 3’s peformance of Crikey Moses. The performance included some super songs.
In the play we saw how the baby Moses was hidden by his parents in the bullrushes and found by the pharoahs daughter who brought him up as her own child.
Primary 3 pupils and staff had worked very hard to produce the excellent performance. Well done!
PC Maclellan came to the primary 7 to talk about internet safety and cyber bullying on Friday 18th March 2016 . He is also coming to do a talk on drugs on Thursday 31st March 2016.
When PC Maclellan came to speak to primary 7 to talk about internet safety he asked us what we use internet for and if we have said anything nasty online. Then he showed us a video in which a 10 year old girl puts a sign up outside her house showing a picture of herself and her personal information: name, age, town etc.Then girls walk by and take a photo of her while laughing. Next a man called Simon enters the house and steals some of her private information and tries to talk to her. By the end of the video the girl finds out who Simon is and he gets arrested.
Next we got a sheet with questions we had to answer from what we learned in the video there were questions like why do we have privacy settings and what is a cyber bully.
Overall we found the talk very interesting and we learned allot we are all excited for his talk on drugs and we will hopefully learn allot.
Recently the Primary 1’s made Fat balls to raise money for them to go on a bus trip to Aberdeen Ballroom dancing and practice their Scottish Country Dancing. They had been practicing for weeks and were finally ready to perform a week ago. You could see that they had been practicing because they performed very well. Some of their parents came to visit their dancing, and I would be imagine they’d be very impressed with their children.
By Kyle and Ethan
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